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Digital Education Action Plan:
priorities, actions and timeframe

                            Georgi Dimitrov & Fabrizia Benini,
                                       European Commission
              Directorate-General Education, Youth, Sport and
               Culture & Directorate-General Communications
                           Networks, Content and Technology
                                          24 September 2018

How can we prepare today’s learners for life
and work in an age of rapid digital change?

Evolution in ownership of smart phones

Transformation brings opportunities

How can we ensure that digital transformation
is inclusive?

How can education keep pace?

                     Less than half of   20-25% are taught
95% of 16-24 year    children are in
olds in the EU are                       by digitally
                     schools that are    confident and
regular internet     highly digitally
users                                    supportive teachers
                     equipped

Political momentum

Priority 1               Priority 2                    Priority 3
Making better use of     Developing relevant digital   Improving education
digital technology for   competences and skills for    through better data
teaching and learning    the digital transformation    analysis and foresight

Priority 1: Making better use of digital technology
for teaching and learning

Priority 1: Policy challenges

                                Where do you access the Internet? Eurostat 2013

Priority 2: Developing relevant digital skills and
competences for the digital transformation

Priority 2: Policy challenges

Priority 3: Improving education with better data
and foresight

  PriPriority 2 - Developing digital competences
  and skills

 ority 1

Priority 3: Policy challenges

     Data is currently under-     User-generated data is      Foresight might allow
     exploited for educational   already available and can   education to anticipate
             purposes                help identify needs             change

Priority 1               Priority 2                       Priority 3

Making better use of     Developing relevant digital      Improving education
digital technology for   competences and skills for the   through better data
teaching and learning    digital transformation           analysis and foresight

ACTION 1: Support the roll-out of high
capacity broadband in schools

     Raising awareness of the benefits for schools
    and available funding opportunities
     Supporting connectivity i.e. through a voucher
    scheme focusing on disadvantaged areas

ACTION 2: Scaling the SELFIE self-
assessment tool to one million teachers,
trainers and learners

     Self-assessment tool
     on digital readiness
     of schools

      Upscale SELFIE to reach one million teachers,
     trainers and learners
      Promote a mentoring scheme to support school
     in the uptake of SELFIE

ACTION 6: Bring EU Code Week to
schools in Europe
                                                         Participation – from
• EU Code Week celebrates creativity, problem            10,000 to 1.2 million
  solving and collaboration through coding and
  other tech activities. and other tech activities
• EU Code Week offers participants the
  possibility to make their first steps as digital
  creators.
• Teachers can access free professional
  development opportunities and teaching
  resources.
• Activity organisers pin their activity on the map by registering
  online.
• Teachers can build network of activities, to engage as many
  students as possible, and earn a Certificate of Excellence through
  the CodeWeek4All challenge.

ACTION 7: Tackle the challenges of
  digital transformation

•  Launching an EU-wide awareness-raising
  campaign to foster online safety, cyber hygiene
  and media literacy
•  Launching a cyber-security teaching initiative
  building on the Digital Competence Framework for
  Citizens

ACTION 8: Programme to support digital
and entrepreneurial competences of
female students
                                                                                             Self-Employed
                                                                                            people in the EU

     Gender gap
                                                                                                               Wom
                                                                                                               en

      ICT specialists by gender (2005-2015)   Population working in jobs with ICT-related
                                                    studies by gender (2011-2015)

      Support measures to decrease the gender gap in
     technology and entrepreneurial sectors
      Equip girls with digital skills and inspirational models

ACTION 10: Artificial intelligence and
learning analytics pilot actions

    Use of data
    for improving education

     Make better use of the huge amount of data already
    available
     Develop relevant toolkit and guidance for Member
    States to use data for education

Thank you

Georgi.Dimitrov@ec.europa.eu

Fabrizia.Benini@ec.europa.eu

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